DNA cleavage by intercalatable cobalt–bispicolylamine complexes activated by visible light
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 13,p. 1515-1516
Abstract
Two intercalatable CoII-complexes of anthryl or anthraquinone attached bispicolylamine derivatives cleave plasmid pTZ19R DNA spontaneously upon exposure to visible light under ambient conditions.Keywords
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